The Political Economy of Gunnar Myrdal.

From: Atlantic Economic Journal | Date: June 1, 2001| Author: LEY, ROBERT D. | Copyright information

James Angresano

Edward Elgar, 1997, 197 pp.

This work traces some aspects of Gunnar Myrdal's intellectual development with an eye to suggesting a Myrdallian paradigm, offered as an alternative to orthodox economic analysis. While the characteristics of a Myrdallian perspective are clear and some weaknesses of neoclassicism are presented, the lack of critical analysis and explicit comparison of the alternatives weakens the argument. Instead, one is expected to...

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